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60 Mercer L. Rev. 1075 (2008)
Adverse Employment Action - How Much Harm Must Be Shown to Sustain a Claim of Discrimination under Title VII

handle is hein.journals/mercer60 and id is 1085 raw text is: Comment Adverse Employment Action-How Much Harm Must be Shown to Sustain a Claim of Discrimination Under Title VII? I. INTRODUCTION* Adverse employment action is judicial shorthand for determining whether a plaintiff showed that an employer's action sufficiently affected the employee's compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment.1 This is a crucial element to sustain a § 703 claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.2 However, what does adverse employment action really mean and how much harm must be alleged to satisfy the § 703 harm element? Must an employee show some direct economic harm? Or a less tangible, indirect economic harm? Or what *. Georgia College & State University (B.S., 2005); Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University (J.D., Candidate, 2009). I would like to thank Professor Harold S. Lewis, Jr., at Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law, for advising me throughout the writing process of this Comment. I would also like to thank the manuscripting and galley I teams, and especially the managing editors for all their help. I am grateful for their superhuman editing skills. 1. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1) (2000). 2. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-1 (2000); see McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973). 1075

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